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verse beg. Mithig techt tar mo thimna

  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
First words (verse)
  • Mithig techt tar mo thimna
Author
Ascribed to: Cormac mac Cuilennáin
Cormac mac Cuilennáin
(d. 908)
bishop and king of Munster
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Cormac mac Cuilennáin identifies himself (as the speaker) in the last quatrain of version A. The Brussels MS 5100-5104 ascribes the poem to 'Corbmac', with a marginal note supplying ‘mac Cuileanain’.(1)n. 1 Erich Poppe, ‘Cormac’s metrical testament: ‘Mithig techt tar mo thimna’’, Celtica 23 (1999): 300.
Manuscripts

Erich Poppe distinguishes between three versions:

First version (A and B)
A =
Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 9 [s. xv (?)]
p. 37, lines 22–34
B1 =
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5100-5104 (507) [1630]
p. 46
B2 =
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 20978-20979 [s. xvii]
ff. 51v–52r
Second, longer version:
London, British Library, MS Additional 30512 = Leabhar Uí Maolconaire [s. xv-xvi]
ff. 35r–35v
Later manuscripts containing copies include:
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 18 (154) [s. xviii]
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 5 (156) [s. xviii]
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 5 (781) [s. xviii]
Third version (8 quatrains):
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 345
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 5 (156) [s. xviii]
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 C 55 (1185) [s. xviii-xix]
Here beginning ‘Mithid ar mo thioma ciath’
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 24 (257) [s. xviii/xix]
Here beginning ‘Mithid damhsa mo thiomna ciath’.
Poppe adds to the above:
Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 13 [c.1818]
18 quatrains beginning ‘Mithid teacht tar mo thimna’. Known to but not consulted by Poppe.
Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 31
7 quatrains beginning ‘Mithid dámhsa mo thiomna’. Not consulted by Poppe
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 C 15 (1251) [s. xix]
English version
Language
  • Middle Irish
  • Version A is in later Middle Irish (Poppe).
Form
verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Sources

Notes

1.
Erich Poppe, ‘Cormac’s metrical testament: ‘Mithig techt tar mo thimna’’, Celtica 23 (1999): 300.

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[ed.] [tr.] Poppe, Erich [ed. and tr.], “Cormac’s metrical testament: ‘Mithig techt tar mo thimna’”, Celtica 23 (1999): 300–311.
Celt.dias.ie – Celtica 23: <link> Celt.dias.ie – PDF (without the text edition): <link>
Edition of the text in Franciscan A 9 (+variants), with translation and discussion, including a few corrections to Van Hamel's edition.
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